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Doris Raab (19 October 1851 – 1933) was a German etcher and engraver.
Raab was born on 19 October 1851 in
Biography
Raab was born on 19 October 1851 in Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
. She was the daughter of the artist Johann Leonhard Raab
Johann Leonhard Raab ( Unterschwaningen 29 March 1825 – 2 April 1899 Munich) was a German printmaker and painter.Friedrich Pecht: ''Verzeichnis der Abbildungen'', in: ''Schiller-Galerie ...'' sowie dito in: ''Goethe-Galerie ...''
Life
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who was also her teacher.
Doris Raab exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts
The Palace of Fine Arts is a monumental structure located in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, originally constructed for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition to exhibit works of art. Completely rebuilt from 1964 to ...
at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago
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in Chicago, Illinois. She also exhibited her work at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris
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.
Her engraving of ''Mary Queen of Scots receiving the news that her death warrant has been signed by her cousin Queen Elizabeth'' was published in December 1878 in "The Art Journal
''The Art Journal'' was the most important British 19th-century magazine on art. It was founded in 1839 by Hodgson & Graves, print publishers, 6 Pall Mall, with the title ''Art Union Monthly Journal'' (or ''The Art Union''), the first issue of 7 ...
". It was based on a painting by the Bavarian Karl von Piloty
Karl Theodor von Piloty (1 October 1826 – 21 July 1886) was a German painter, noted for his historical subjects, and recognised as the foremost representative of the realistic school in Germany.
Life and work
Piloty was born in Munich. His fat ...
and the magazine was distributed in the UK and the USA.
Raab died in 1933.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raab, Doris 1851 births 1933 deaths 19th-century German women artists 20th-century German women artists 19th-century German artists 20th-century German artists Artists from Nuremberg